The TOI correspondent from Washington: America turned 250 on Saturday with the sort of birthday celebration only Washington DC could produce: military flyovers, patriotic music, thunderstorms, a late-night presidential address with huffy rhetoric about liberty, war, and greatness before thousands of feverish, flag-waving MAGA supporters, followed by enough fireworks to alarm the animal kingdom. And awkwardly between all this, several hundred masked white supremacists marching through the nation's capital.

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By Belinda Robinson in Washington |

By Belinda Robinson in Washington DC |